Beauty, 1997 Nambe metal, 24 x 29 x 20 inches Todd Siler A.R.T. Strings Siler's multi-media installation, "A.R.T. Strings (All Representations of Thoughts)" consists of paintings on synthetic canvas ("Metaphorms") and freestanding steel sculptures ("Subliminal Stories") that depict a world of information we experience daily that is radically shaping the future of life as we know it. In describing the digitally compressed and distorted photographs in his sculptures, Siler writes: "We compress and expand everything, as naturally as gravity distorts time and shapes space. These compressed expansions and expanded compressions affect everything under the sun: from our sense of truth to our experiences of beauty; from blissful joys to beastly horrors. Today we find ourselves staring at the edges of things, wondering about the subliminal stories our minds create to cope with our eternally turbulent universe, and potentially terrifying future. Are we, as physicists and string theorists, merely anonymous creations of invisible strings of matter too subtle to see? Does each nameless string contain a world of information that will forever elude the touch of human understanding? Does every string embody All Representations of Thoughts? Do A.R.T. Strings link everything from tranquility to terror? Perhaps life is only one pattern nature represents in infinite ways with all strings attached". Todd Siler founded Psi-Phi Communications, LLC in 1993, a Denver-based company that creates and develops innovative, multi-purpose learning tools for education and business, such as the Think Like a Genius® Program for Lifelong Learning. He is the author of "Think like a Genius" (Bantam Books), "Breaking the Mind Barrier" (Simon and Schuster), as well as scientific concept articles including "Fractal Reactor: A New Geometry for Plasma Fusion" published in the "Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion" (NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Canada, 2003). Public collections of his work include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He was a Forum Fellow at the 1999 and 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea. Siler holds a number of patents on a wide range of inventions, including textile printing technology and a computer-graphics input device. Exhibition: December 2 - 24, 2004 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Monday by appointment Ronald Feldmann Fine Art 31 Mercer Street USA-New York, NY 10013 Telephone +1 212 226-3232 Fax +1 212 941-1536 Email info@feldmangallery.com www.feldmangallery.com |
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